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Gravitational birefringence and an exotic formula for redshift

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-06-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compute the birefringence of light in curved Robertson-Walker spacetimes and propose an exotic formula for redshift based on the internal structure of the spinning photon. We then use the Hubble diagram of supernovae to test this formula.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.09295,
  title  = {Gravitational birefringence and an exotic formula for redshift},
  author = {Christian Duval and Johanna Pasquet and Thomas Schucker and Andre Tilquin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09295},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages, 2 figures, version 2 matches the published one

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